The Dine Group - Privacy Policy

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To be the preeminent provider of contract legal professionals to United States law firms and corporations, for the purpose of facilitating the preservation of the rule of law in our democratic society.

U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group Privacy Statement

U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group understands the importance of privacy protection, and we make every effort to ensure the information you share with us through our Web sites is secure. This Privacy Policy outlines our practices for collecting, storing and using the personal information you provide through any of our websites. Through this policy, U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group strives to help you make well-informed decisions about the management of your personal data.

How We Collect Personal Information
Personal information may be collected from those who access our websites either in search of employment or for information regarding our services. To ensure quality of service, there is certain information we require, such as your name, address and phone number, as well as other information such as your employment experience, skills, and educational background.

Job applicants may choose to send their resumes to us electronically in order to be considered for employment. This could involve collecting personal work history, education and skills. The data is stored in a secure data center.

Some of our temporary employees may enter their time worked each week into our online timekeeping system. In order to process payroll, U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group will need certain information, such as hours worked, personal information, and a tax ID number. This information will be used to process payroll either through U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group’s system or that of an agent of U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group. All information collected will be protected by this Privacy Policy.

U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group may also collect and analyze demographic and geographic information, such as the number of applicants in a particular city, or how many temporary employees have a certain educational background. We may from time to time report this information to marketing companies on an aggregate basis, or as required by law. We will remove any unique personal information (such as name and address) that could identify you in this demographic information.

Other Ways We Collect User Information
U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group may collect anonymous information from visits to our sites through the use of "web beacons,” which do not access your personal information, but rather allow us to count users who have visited our websites. This anonymous information is sometimes known as "clickstream data." U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group or its vendors may use this data to analyze trends and statistics to help us provide better customer service. If you do not want your transaction details used in this manner, see the paragraph below on cookies.

Cookies, which are packets of information sent from a Web server to a Web browser, are created for users who log in to our websites. The cookies do not store personal information beyond a user’s name and email address, and are removed when the user leaves the site.

U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group uses Web usage tracking software to log the IP address of each individual user. This information is used only to determine Web site usage, and at no time is there any attempt to associate these IP addresses with personally identifiable information such as names and addresses.

How We Use Personal Information
The information U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group collects through our Web sites may be used to contact you with information regarding our services, or to perform activities necessary to connect you with employment opportunities.

U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group collects and uses personal information for the following purposes where necessary:

If You Are an Individual

to tell you about our products and services,
to establish and maintain our relationship with you,
for employment-related services, including possible employment of you,
to communicate with you, or
for the management and defense of legal claims and actions, compliance with court orders and other legal obligations and regulatory requirements, and as otherwise permitted or required by law.

If You Are a Business

to tell you about our products and services,
to evaluate, establish and maintain any business relationship with you,
to invoice you for our services and products you may use,
to communicate with you, or
for the management and defense of legal claims and actions, compliance with court orders and other legal obligations and regulatory requirements, and as otherwise permitted or required by law.

Opt In / Opt Out
You have the choice at any time to refrain from providing personal information to U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group. Please understand, however, that your choice not to provide certain information (such as educational background, etc.) may limit or prevent U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group from providing services to you.

U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group collects the type of data viewed by some countries as "sensitive," such as information required to provide health-care benefits. This collection of data is either consistent with or required by law. In order to comply with statutes, rules and regulations pertaining to equal employment opportunities, or to assist us in compiling data for its affirmative action practices, we may also ask you to provide gender or racial information. Your provision of this type of information will be voluntary, unless it is required by law, and will not hinder your employment opportunities. When collecting sensitive information, we will ask you to provide your consent to collect, store, and in some cases, transfer this data to third parties including payroll service companies, health insurance organizations, or government agencies as required by law.

U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group sometimes communicates with candidates through email messages when job opportunities are available that match their skills. If at any time you want to discontinue receipt of these emails, simply reply with a message that communicates your wishes.

How We Share Your Private Information
U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group does not disclose any of your personal information gathered from our websites to persons outside of our company, except as described below.

Personal information is shared with customers of U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group (“U.S. Legal Support Customers”) who are interested in filling job positions that match the qualifications found on an applicant or employee’s resume. Personal contact information (such as your name and address) is excluded from the resume before it is shared with the interested party. U.S. Legal Support Customers operate in both the U.S. and in various countries in the European Union. Because of this, your personal information may be transmitted to, shared with, stored by, and processed by U.S Legal Support Customers, whether here in the United States or in other countries where they have operations. To the best of U.S. Legal Support’s belief, U.S. Legal Support Customers’ operations are governed by the same general privacy principles and security practices as U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group.

Access to the data that is collected through our websites is limited to authorized U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group staff employees and companies that provide services (such as computer support) to U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group.

U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group may release personally identifiable information about you if legally required to do so by law enforcement or other governmental authority, or under advice of counsel. We may also release your personal information to protect the rights or property of U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group, to prevent a crime or protect others from harm.

For our employees, we occasionally use other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as health-care benefits, and by providing that information to us you consent to the disclosure of that information to these companies.

We may also send your personal data to marketing companies who will then contact you to determine your feedback and satisfaction with our services. These companies may also send you information on our services.

We may also provide your information in connection with the sale or transfer of all or a part of U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group’s business to another company. In that case, we will require such a buyer to agree to treat your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We will only provide these agents and suppliers with the personal information they need to deliver the service we have requested, and who have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of that information in accordance with this policy.

Safe Harbor
Our website collects and processes personally identifiable information in compliance with applicable data protection laws, including the European Union (“EU”) Data Protection Directive and the United States Safe Harbor Principles as set forth by the United States Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personally identifiable information.

More information on U.S. Safe Harbor Principles is available at http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/sh_overview.html

Ensuring Accuracy & Removing Personal Records
U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of your records. We do not alter your information before sharing it with third parties, except to remove any personal contact information.

You may contact us at any time to review the accuracy of the personal information, and if you find any errors, you have the responsibility to notify us so that we may have the correct information. It is your responsibility to keep your records with U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group updated by notifying us by e-mail at the address in this policy. We will do our best to respond to all reasonable requests to update your data in a timely manner. Please note that the sensitive nature of our business may limit our ability to provide access to certain records if doing so may be unduly burdensome, infringes on the rights of others, or is prohibited by law.

If you wish to remove your record from our websites and end your relationship with U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group, please submit your request via the Contact Us portion of our website.

Keeping Information Secure
U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group realizes the importance of safeguarding your personal information and has in place appropriate procedures to help ensure limited access to your personally identifiable information. U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group uses reasonable security measures to maintain the security of the personally identifiable information we may collect and process. We may use encryption, firewalls, password protection, and physical lock and key to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information. We may also place internal restrictions on who in the company may access data to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information.

Despite our safeguards, the nature of the Internet is such that data may be intercepted by unauthorized third parties regardless of any security measures that may be in place. Therefore, in submitting personally identifiable information to our websites, you assume the risk of an unauthorized third party obtaining that information.

Additional Information
Registration on U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group.com is not intended for persons under the age of 18.

Following Links to Other Sites
U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group’s Web sites may contain links to other sites on the Internet. U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group has no control over the personal data these other sites collect and we strongly encourage you to review their privacy policies if you are concerned.

Updates to this Policy
U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group reserves the right to update this privacy policy at any time. You can always obtain a copy of the most up-to-date policy by visiting this Web site.

Complaints
You may lodge any complaints about violations of this Privacy Policy with U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group or the Federal Trade Commission.

Arbitration
Except for complaints to the Federal Trade Commission, all disputes relating in any way, directly or indirectly, for any breach by U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group of this Privacy Policy will be subject to arbitration. All arbitration proceeding shall be conducted according to the rules of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) in Houston, Texas, including any dispute about the scope of this arbitration agreement, and including all questions about the types of disputes that are subject to this arbitration agreement, all of which you agree will be decided by the arbitrators, whose decision will be final and binding on you. Any issue concerning the extent to which a dispute is subject to arbitration, or concerning the applicability, interpretation or enforceability of this agreement, including any contention that all or part of this agreement is invalid or unenforceable, shall be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act and resolved by the arbitrators.

You acknowledge and agree that, in any arbitration proceeding, no depositions will be taken, and all other forms of discovery of facts will be limited to those things that the arbitrators determine, in their sole discretion, to be necessary. Further, in any arbitration proceeding, (i) there shall be no award of punitive, exemplary, incidental or consequential or other special damages and (iii) the parties will conduct the arbitration confidentially and expeditiously and will pay their own costs and expenses of arbitration, including their own attorneys’ fees. If you are unable to afford the AAA fee, you agree to notify all persons against whom you have an arbitrable claim and give such persons the opportunity individually and as a group to pay such fee. The proceeding and the decision shall be kept confidential by the parties. All claims you may have under this Privacy Policy must be brought within one (1) year of the date on which the claim arose.

Acceptance of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is current as of the effective date set forth below. By using this site, you accept all of the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use this site and/or our services. Your continued use of this site and/or continued provision of personally identifiable information to U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group following the posting of any changes to the Privacy Policy will be subject to the terms of the then-current Privacy Policy.

Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about this privacy policy you may contact our corporate offices in writing at:

U.S. Legal Support/Dine Group
Attn: Chief Information Officer
363 North Sam Houston Parkway East
Suite 900
Houston, TX 77060
Main: 713-653-7100
privacypolicy@uslegalsupport.com

Conditions of Use
By using these Web sites you are consenting to the use of your personal information as described in this policy.

Quality of Data
Users of this site agree to provide only truthful and accurate personal information when registering for our job services. Failure to do so may result in the discontinuation of our service offerings.